The Public Transport Company of Porto, SA or STCP is the company that manages the bus network in the municipality of Porto and also several lines of municipalities in the Porto Metropolitan Area. Apart from buses, there are three lines of electric cars that are the responsibility of this company.
The service, with 83 lines (including electrical) is ensured by a modern bus park (near 500, with an average age of six and a half years). Some lines are licensed to private companies. STCP operates one of the largest gas bus fleets in Europe, with a total of 255 vehicles, representing over 50% of its fleet.
The company participated in a program to test hydrogen-powered buses in several European cities, having received three vehicles powered by this energy and three diesel buses, at all similar to hydrogen, for comparison. Of H2-powered buses, two have been returned and is in the Tram Museum. The other three remain in service diesel-
The standard color is blue buses and white with an orange stripe, having been withdrawn from circulation all old vehicles-colored orange in 2008.
Worth visiting is the Tram Museum, where you can admire several vehicles that have marked the past Porto (not necessarily just electric). Local museum: Alameda Basil Teles Massarelos